Part 5
[4.24]
And (forbidden to you) are married women, except those whom your right hand
owns. Such Allah has written for you. Lawful to you beyond all that, is that
you can seek using your wealth in marriage and not fornication. So whatever you
have enjoyed from them give them their obligated wage. And there is no fault in
you in what ever you mutually agree after the obligation. Allah is the Knower,
the Wise.
[4.25]
If any one of you do not have the affluence to be able marry free believing
women, (let him marry) from among the believing women that your right hand
owns. Allah knows best your belief, you are from each other. Marry them with
the permission of their people and give them their wages (dowry) honorably
being women in marriage and chaste, not taking lovers. If, after marriage they
commit adultery, they shall be liable to half the punishment of a married
(free) woman. That is for those of you who fear fornication, but it is better
for you to be patient. Allah is the Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
[4.26] Allah wishes to make this clear to you and to
guide you along the ways of those who have gone before you, and turns towards
you. And Allah is the Knower, the Wise.
[4.27] Allah wishes to turn towards you, but those who
follow their lower desires wish you to greatly swerve away.
[4.28] Allah wishes to lighten for you (the jurisprudence),
and humans are created weak.
[4.29] Believers, do not consume your wealth among
yourselves in falsehood, except there be trading by your mutual agreement. And
do not kill yourselves. Allah is the Most Merciful to you.
[4.30] But whosoever does that in transgression and
wrongfully We shall roast him in the Fire. That is an easy matter for Allah.
[4.31] If you avoid the major sins that are forbidden
to you, We shall pardon your evil deeds and admit you by an entrance of honor.
[4.32] Do not wish for the bounty which Allah has
preferred one of you above another. For men is a share of what they earn, and
for women is a share of what they earn. Ask Allah of His Bounty. Allah has
knowledge of all things.
[4.33] To everyone we have made heirs of that which
parents and kinsmen leave, and those with whom you have sworn an agreement, so
give to them their share. Allah is Witness over everything.
[4.34] Men are the maintainers of women for that Allah
has preferred in bounty one of them over another, and for that they have spent
of their wealth. Righteous women are obedient, guarding in secret that which
Allah has guarded. Those from whom you fear rebelliousness, admonish them and
desert them in the bed and smack them (without harshness). Then, if they obey
you, do not look for any way against them. Allah is High, Great.
[4.35] If you fear a breach between them send for an
arbiter from his people and an arbiter from her people. If both wish
reconciliation, Allah will bring success between them. Allah is the Knower, the
Aware.
[4.36] Worship Allah and do not associate anything with
Him. Be kind to parents and near kinsmen, to the orphans and to the needy, to
your neighbor who is your kindred, and to the neighbor at your far side, and
the companion at your side, and to the destitute traveler, and to that which
your right hands owns. Allah does not love he who is proud and struts,
[4.37] (or) those who are greedy and order other people
to be greedy, who themselves conceal the bounty that Allah has given them. And
We have prepared a humiliating punishment for the unbelievers.
[4.38] And those who spend their wealth to showoff to
people and neither believe in Allah nor in the Last Day. Whosoever has satan
for a companion, he is an evil companion.
[4.39] What (harm) could befall them if they believed
in Allah and the Last Day and spent of what Allah provided them with? Allah is
Knowledgeable of them all.
[4.40] Surely, Allah shall not harm so much as the
weight of an atom, and if it is a good deed He will double it, and give from
His Own a great wage.
[4.41] How then shall it be when We bring forward from
every nation a witness, and bring you (Prophet Muhammad) to witness against
those!
[4.42] On that Day those who disbelieved, and have
disobeyed the Messenger (Muhammad) will wish that the earth might be leveled
with them, and they will not conceal a statement from Allah.
[4.43] Believers, do not come close to prayer when you
are drunk, until you know what you are saying, nor when you are in a state of
impurity, unless you are crossing through the way (prayer area) until you have
bathed yourselves. If you are ill or on a journey, or if any of you comes from
the toilet or you have touched women, and you cannot find water, so touch pure
dust and wipe your faces and your hands. Allah is the Pardoner, the Forgiver.
[4.44] Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the
Book was given purchasing error and wishing that you should err from the Path?
[4.45] But Allah knows best your enemies. It is
sufficient that Allah is the Guardian, and it is sufficient that Allah is the
Helper.
[4.46] Some Jews tampered with the words (altering)
their places saying: 'We have heard and we disobey, ' and 'Hear, without
hearing, ' and 'Observe us (Ra'ina, in Hebrew means evil) ', twisting with
their tongues traducing religion. But if they had said: 'We have heard and
obey, ' and 'Hear, ' and 'Regard us, ' it would have been better for them, and
more upright; but Allah has cursed them for their disbelief, so they do not believe,
except a few.
[4.47] You, to whom the Book was given, believe in that
which We have sent down confirming that which you have, before We obliterate
faces and turn them on their backs, or curse them as We cursed the people of
the Sabbath. And the command of Allah is done.
[4.48] Allah does not forgive (the sin of inventing an)
association with Him, but He forgives other (sins) to whomsoever He will. He
who associates with Allah has invented a great sin.
[4.49] Have you not seen those who exalt themselves?
Rather, Allah purifies whom He will and they shall not be wronged a single
tissue that covers a date stone.
[4.50] Look how they forge lies against Allah, and it
is sufficient for a clear sin.
[4.51] Have you not seen those to whom a portion of the
Book was given believing in (the two statutes of
[4.52] Those are they whom Allah has cursed and whosoever
Allah has cursed, you will not find any helper for him.
[4.53] Or, will they have a share in the Kingdom? If
so, they will not give the people the pit mark of a date stone.
[4.54] Or do they envy people for the Bounty Allah has
given them? We gave the family of Abraham the Book and Wisdom, and a great
kingdom.
[4.55] There are some of them who believed in him
(Prophet Muhammad), and some of them that bar from it, and Gehenna (Hell) is
sufficient for a Blaze.
[4.56] Those who disbelieve Our verses We will roast
them in a Fire! As often as their skins are cooked, We exchange their skin with
another, in order that they taste the punishment. Surely, Allah is Mighty, the
Wise.
[4.57] As for those who believe and do good works, We
shall admit them to Gardens underneath which rivers flow, they are there for
eternity, and for them purified spouses. And We shall admit them into plenteous
shade.
[4.58] Allah orders you all to hand back trusts to
their owners, and when you judge between people you judge with justice. Indeed,
the best is the exhortation with which Allah exhorts you. Allah is the Hearer,
the Seer.
[4.59] Believers, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and
those in authority among you. Should you dispute about anything refer it to
Allah and the Messenger, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day. That is
better and the best interpretation.
[4.60] Have you not seen those who claim that they
believe in what has been sent down to you and what was sent down before you?
They desire to be judged by the idol, although they have been commanded to
disbelieve it. But satan desires to lead them astray into far error.
[4.61] When it is said to them: 'Come to what Allah has
sent down and to the Messenger, ' you see the hypocrites completely barring the
way to you.
[4.62] How would it be if some affliction hit them for
what their hands have forwarded? Then, they would come to you swearing by
Allah, 'We sought only kindness and conciliation! '
[4.63] Those, Allah knows what is in their hearts, so
turn away from them, and exhort them, and say to them penetrating words about
themselves.
[4.64] We did not send a Messenger except that he
should be obeyed, by the permission of Allah. If, when they wronged themselves,
they had come to you and asked Allah for forgiveness, and the Messenger had
asked for forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah the Turner, the
Most Merciful.
[4.65] But no, by your Lord, they will not believe you
until they make you the judge regarding the disagreement between them, then,
they will not find in themselves any discomfort concerning your verdict, and
will surrender to you in full submission.
[4.66] Had We written for them, saying, 'Slay
yourselves, ' or 'Emerge from your houses, ' they would not have done so,
except a few of them. Yet, if they had done as they were exhorted, it would
have been better for them, and stronger in firmness,
[4.67] and then We would surely have given them from
Our Own, a great wage,
[4.68] and guided them to a Straight Path.
[4.69] Whosoever obeys Allah, and the Messenger, they
are with those whom Allah has favored, the Prophets, the sincere, the martyrs
and the righteous, and these are the best company.
[4.70] This is the Bounty of Allah. It is sufficient
that Allah is the Knowledgeable.
[4.71] Believers, take your precautions. March in
detachments or march all together.
[4.72] Surely, there are among you, he who lingers,
then, if an affliction hits you, he would say: 'Allah has favored me, that I
was not a martyr with them. '
[4.73] But, if the Bounty of Allah reaches you, he
would surely say as if there had never been any affection between you and him:
'Would that I had been with them! I should have indeed won a great triumph. '
[4.74] So let those who sell the worldly life for the
Everlasting Life fight in the way of Allah, whoever fights in the way of Allah,
and is killed or conquers, We shall give him a great wage.
[4.75] So why is it, that you do not fight in the way
of Allah, and for the abased among men, women, and children who say: 'Our Lord,
bring us out from this village whose people are harmdoers, and give to us a
guardian from You, and give to us a helper from You. '
[4.76] And those who believe fight in the way of Allah,
but those who disbelieve fight in the way of the idol. Therefore, fight against
those guided by satan. Indeed, satan's guile is always weak.
[4.77] Have you not seen those to whom it has been
said: 'Restrain your hands, establish your prayers and pay the obligatory
charity. ' Then, as soon as fighting is written for them, there is a party of
them fearing people as they would fear Allah, or with stronger fear. And they
say: 'Our Lord, why have You written fighting for us, why not postpone us to a
near term? ' Say: 'The pleasure of this life is little. The Everlasting Life is
better for the cautious. You shall not be wronged a single tissue (of the fine
skin that covers a date stone).
[4.78] Wherever you are, death will overtake you, even
if you shall be in the fortified, high towers. ' If bounty reaches them, they
say: 'This is from Allah, ' but when evil hits them, they say: 'This is from
you. ' Say to them: 'All is from Allah! ' What is the matter with this people
that they scarcely understand any statement.
[4.79] Whatever good reaches you, it is from Allah, and
whatever evil reaches you, it is from yourself. We have sent you (Prophet
Muhammad) as a Messenger to humanity. Allah is sufficient for a Witness.
[4.80] Whosoever obeys the Messenger, indeed he has
obeyed Allah. As for those who turn away, We have not sent you to be their
protector.
[4.81] They say, 'Obedience, ' but as soon as they
leave you, a party of them hide other than what they said. Allah writes down
what they hide. So turn away from them, and rely on Allah. Allah is sufficient
for a Guardian.
[4.82] Will they not contemplate upon the Koran? If it
had been from other than Allah, they would surely have found in it many
contradictions.
[4.83] When a matter comes to them, be it of security
or fear, they broadcast it, whereas if they returned it to the Messenger and to
those in authority among them, those of them whose task is to research it would
have known it. If it was not for the Bounty of Allah and His Mercy, all but a
few of you would have followed satan.
[4.84] Therefore, fight in the way of Allah. You are
only responsible for yourself. Urge the believers on, in order that Allah may
restrain the might of those who disbelieve. Allah is stronger in might, and stronger
in punishment.
[4.85] Whosoever intercedes with a good intercession
shall receive a share of it, and whosoever intercedes with a bad intercession
shall receive a portion of it. Allah has power over all things.
[4.86] And when you are greeted with a greeting, greet
with better than it, or return it. Allah is the Reckoner of all things.
[4.87] Allah, there is no god except He. He will gather
you to the Resurrection Day, there is no doubt in it. And who is truer in
statement than Allah?
[4.88] What is the matter with you that you are two
parties concerning the hypocrites when Allah has overthrown them for what they
earned? Would you desire to guide those whom Allah has caused to be led astray?
Whosoever Allah leads astray, you will not find for him a way.
[4.89] They wish that you would disbelieve as they
disbelieve, and then you would be equal. Therefore, do not take a guide from
them until they emigrate in the way of Allah. Then, if they turn back take them
and kill them wherever you find them. Do not take them for guides or helpers,
[4.90] except those who join to a nation in which there
is between you and them a treaty, or they come to you with their chests
constricted from fighting you or fighting their nation. Had Allah willed, He
would have given them power over you, and then they would have certainly fought
you. Therefore, if they keep away from you and do not fight you, offering you
peace, then Allah does not make any way for you against them.
[4.91] You will find others desiring to be secure from
you, and secure from their own nation. Whenever they are called back to
sedition, they plunge into it. If they do not keep away from you and offer you
peace, and restrain their hands, take them and kill them wherever you find
them. Those, over them, We give you clear authority.
[4.92] It is not for a believer to kill another
believer, except that it is by error. Whosoever kills a believer in error, let
him free a believing slave, and ransom is to be handed to his family, unless
they forgo being charitable. If he belonged to a people who are your enemies
and is a believer then, the setting free of a believing slave. If he belonged
to a people in which there is between you and them a treaty, then a ransom is
to be handed to his family and the setting free of a believing slave. But, if
he does not find (the means) let him fast two consecutive months in repentance
to Allah. And Allah is the Knower, the Wise.
[4.93] The recompense for he who kills a believer
deliberately is Gehenna (Hell), he is eternal there. Allah will be angry with
him and will curse him and prepare for him a great punishment.
[4.94] Believers, if you are journeying in the way of
Allah, do not say to those who offer you peace, until it has been clarified:
'You are not believers, ' seeking the enjoyment of the worldly life, with Allah
there are many spoils. You were like that before, and Allah has been gracious
to you. Therefore let it be clarified. Surely, Allah is Aware of what you do.
[4.95] Believers who stay behind, having no injury, are
not equal to those who fight in the way of Allah with their wealth and their
souls. Allah has preferred those who fight with their wealth and their souls a
degree above those who stay behind (because of sickness). Yet to each, Allah
has promised the most excellent (
[4.96] Ranks from Him, forgiveness and mercy. Allah is
the Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
[4.97] And the angels who take those who wronged
themselves will say: 'In what condition were you? ' They will reply 'We were
oppressed in the land. ' They (the angels) will say: 'Was not the earth of
Allah wide enough for you in order that you migrate in it? ' Those, their
shelter will be Gehenna (Hell), an evil arrival.
[4.98] Except the men, women, and children, who, being
abased have no means and they are unable to guide themselves to a way.
[4.
99] Those, Allah may pardon them, He is the
Pardoner, the Forgiver.
[4.100] Whosoever emigrates in the way of Allah shall
find in the land numerous refuges and abundance. Whosoever leaves his house an
immigrant to Allah and His Messenger and then death overtakes him, his wage
shall have fallen upon Allah. Allah is the Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
[4.101] And when you are journeying in the land, there
is no fault in you that you shorten the prayer if you fear that those who
disbelieve will afflict you. Indeed, the unbelievers are a clear enemy for you.
[4.102] When you are with them, and establish the
prayer, let a party of them stand with you, and let them take their weapons.
After making their prostrations, let them be behind you, and let another party
who have not prayed come and pray with you, taking their precautions and their
weapons. Those who disbelieve wish that you should be inattentive of your
weapons and your baggage, so that they might swoop upon you with one assault.
But there is no fault in you if you are harmed by rain, or you are sick to lay
aside your weapons, but take your precautions. Allah has prepared a humiliating
punishment for the unbelievers.
[4.103] When you have established the prayer, remember
Allah standing, sitting, and on your sides. Then, when you are secure,
establish the prayer, surely, prayer is timely written upon the believer.
[4.104] And do not be weak in seeking out the people.
If you are suffering, they are also suffering as you are suffering, but you are
hoping from Allah that which they do not hope. Allah is the Knower, the Wise.
[4.105] Surely, We have sent down to you the Book with
the truth, so that you will rule between the people by that Allah has shown
you. So do not be an advocate for the traitors.
[4.106] And ask the forgiveness of Allah, surely Allah
is the Forgiver, the Most Merciful.
[4.107] And do not argue on behalf of those who betray
themselves, surely, Allah does not love the sinful traitor.
[4.108] They seek to hide themselves from the people,
but they do not hide themselves from Allah for He is with them when they hide
the saying that does not please Him. Allah encompasses what they do.
[4.109] There you are, you have argued on their behalf
in the worldly life, but who will argue with Allah on their behalf on the Day
of Resurrection! Or who will be a guardian for them?
[4.110] He who does evil or wrongs himself and then
asks forgiveness of Allah will find that Allah is the Forgiver, the Most
Merciful.
[4.111] Whosoever earns a sin, he only earns it against
himself. Allah is the Knower, the Wise.
[4.112] Whosoever earns a fault or a sin and casts it
upon the innocent, indeed, he bears the slander and a clear sin.
[4.113] But for the Favor of Allah to you (Prophet
Muhammad) and His Mercy, a party of them intended to lead you astray, but they
only lead themselves astray, and they did not harm you a thing. Allah has sent
down to you the Book and the Wisdom and He has taught you what you did not
know. The Bounty of Allah to you is ever great.
[4.114] There is no good in much of their confiding,
except for he who bids to charity, honor, or reforms between people. Whosoever
does that for the sake of the pleasure of Allah, We shall give him a great
wage.
[4.115] But whosoever opposes the Messenger after
guidance has been made clear to him and follows a path other than that of the
believers, We shall let him follow what he has turned to and We shall roast him
in Gehenna (Hell) an evil arrival.
[4.116] Allah does not forgive (the sin of inventing
an) association with Him, but He forgives other sins to whomsoever He will.
Whosoever associates with Allah has gone astray in far error.
[4.117] Instead of Him they supplicate to none but
females, and indeed they supplicate to none except the rebellious satan,
[4.118] whom Allah has cursed and he (satan) said:
'Indeed, I will take to myself an appointed portion of Your worshipers,
[4.119] and lead them astray. I shall fill them with
fancies and order them to cut off the ears of cattle. I shall order them to
alter the creation of Allah. ' Indeed, whosoever chooses satan for a guide,
instead of Allah, has surely suffered a clear loss.
[4.120] he promises them and fills them with fancies,
but what satan promises them is only a delusion.
[4.121] Those, their shelter will be Gehenna (Hell),
and from it they shall find no refuge.
[4.122] But those who believe and do good works We
shall admit them to Gardens underneath which rivers flow, and there they shall
live for ever, the promise of Allah is true. And who is truer in speech than
Allah!
[4.123] It is not by your fancies, nor by the fancies
of the People of the Book. Whosoever does evil shall be recompensed for it, and
he will not find for himself, other than Allah, a guardian or helper.
[4.124] But whosoever does good works of righteousness,
whether they be a believing male or female, shall enter Paradise, and not be
wronged a pit mark of a date stone.
[4.125] And who is better in religion than he who
submits his face to Allah, being a gooddoer, and follows the Creed of Abraham,
pure in faith? Allah took Abraham for a close friend.
[4.126] To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and
the earth. Allah encompasses everything.
[4.127] They will ask you for a verdict concerning
women. Say: "Allah decides for you concerning them, and what has been
recited in the Book concerning orphaned women to whom you do not give what is
written, and yet desire to marry them, and the abased children, and that you
secure justice for orphans. Whatever good you do, Allah has knowledge it.
[4.128] If a woman fears hatred or aversion from her
husband there is no fault in them if the couple set things right between them,
for reconciliation is better. Avarice attends the souls, but if you do what is
good and are cautious, surely, Allah is Aware of what you do.
[4.129] You will not be able to be just between your women,
even though you are eager. Do not be altogether partial so that you leave her
as if she were suspended. If you reform and are cautious, Allah is the
Forgiver, the Merciful.
[4.130] But if they separate, Allah will enrich each of
them out from His Vastness. He is the Embracer, the Wise.
[4.131] To Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and
earth. We have charged those who were given the Book before you and you to fear
Allah. If you disbelieve, to Allah belongs all that is in the heavens and the
earth. Allah is Rich, the Praised.
[4.132] To Allah belongs all that is in heaven and
earth. It is sufficient that Allah is a Guardian.
[4.133] O people, if He will, He could make you
extinct, and bring others. Surely, Allah is Powerful over that.
[4.134] Whosoever desires the reward of the world, with
Allah is the reward of the world and of the Everlasting Life. Allah is the
Hearer, the Seer.
[4.135] Believers, be maintainers of justice and
witnesses for Allah, even though it is against yourselves, your parents, or
your kinsmen, whether he is rich or poor, Allah has more rights over both of
them. So do not follow desires, so that you are (not) just. If you twist or
turn, Allah is Aware of what you do.
[4.136] Believers, believe in Allah and His Messenger
(Muhammad), in the Book He has sent down to His Messenger, and in the Book He
sent down before. Whosoever disbelieves in Allah, His angels, His Books, His
Messengers, and the Last Day, has surely gone astray into far error.
[4.137] Those who believe, and then disbelieve, and
then believe, and then disbelieve, and increase in disbelief Allah is not to
forgive them nor guide them on a way.
[4.138] Give glad tidings to the hypocrites that for
them there is a painful punishment.
[4.139] Those who take unbelievers for guides instead
of believers, are they seeking might with them? Surely, the Might altogether
belongs to Allah.
[4.140] He has sent down upon you in the Book:
"When you hear His verses being disbelieved or mocked, do not sit with
them until they engage in other talk, or else you will surely be like them.
Allah will surely gather the hypocrites and unbelievers altogether in Gehenna
(Hell).
[4.141] (As for) those who lay in wait for you. If a
victory comes to you from Allah they say: 'Were we not with you? ' But if the
unbelievers get a portion, they say, 'Were we not mightier than you, and did we
not defend you from the believers? ' Allah will judge between you on the Day of
Resurrection. Allah will not grant the unbelievers any way over the believers.
[4.142] The hypocrites seek to deceive Allah, but Allah
is deceiving them. When they stand up to pray, they stand up lazily, showing
off to the people and do not remember Allah, except a little,
[4.143] wavering between (belief and disbelief),
neither to these nor to those, and whom Allah leads astray, you will not find a
way for him.
[4.144] Believers, do not take the unbelievers for
guides instead of the believers, or do you desire to give Allah a clear
authority over you?
[4.145] The hypocrites will be in the lowest place of
the Fire, you will not find a helper for them.
[4.146] But those who repent and mend (their ways), who
hold fast to Allah, and make their religion sincerely for Allah they are with
the believers, and Allah will certainly give the believers a great wage.
[4.147] What, would Allah do with punishing you if you
thank and believe! Allah is the Thanker, the Knower.